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COINGECKO RELEASES 2018 Q3 CRYPTOCURRENCY REPORT CoinGecko 2018 Q3 Cryptocurrency Report has just been released! This is the 5th report that the company has published since the release of its first report in Q3 2017. CoinGecko is very grateful that it has the opportunity to…
GIGAWATT MINING COMPANY GOES THROUGH BANKRUPTCY In the United States the company for manufacturing mining equipment GigaWatt initiated the procedure of bankruptcy. The debt of the startup only to the largest creditors is $7 million. In May 2017, the project raised $…
BITPAY INTEGRATES PAX STABLECOIN INTO A CRYPTO PAYMENT PLATFORM Bitcoin payment platform BitPay will now allow payments using the Paxos Standard token (PAX), which he calls the “fastest growing stablecoin”. Although BitPay had previously integrated a number of different cryptocurrencies into its…
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO LAUNCHED THE BLOCKCHAIN COURSE WITH THE SUPPORT OF SMBC AND ETHEREUM FOUNDATION Tokyo University is launching a blockchain course after receiving nearly $ 800,000 from companies including Japanese Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and Ethereum Foundation. In a press…
TOBACCO SHOPS IN FRANCE WILL START SELLING BITCOINS IN JANUARY Association of sellers of tobacco products of France Confédération des buralistes plans to sell bitcoin in the tobacco stores from the 1st of January 2019. As reported by Europe1, French tobacco shops…
REGULATOR OF ITALY SUSPENDS ACTIVITY OF 3 CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANIES Italian securities market regulator CONSOB issued an order to suspend for 90 days the activities of three cryptocurrency companies: Crypton Ltd, Cryptoforce Ltd and Eagle Bit Trade. Companies Crypton Ltd, Cryptoforce Ltd and…
HUOBI HAS LAUNCHED A PLATFORM FOR TRADING BITCOIN DERIVATIVES The crypto currency exchange Huobi has opened the platform to trade bitcoin futures. Weekly, two-week and quarterly contracts denominated in US dollars are available for purchase. The cost of one bitcoin derivative on…
BITPAY ANNOUNCED SUPPORT FOR STABLECOIN PAXOS BitPay has started cooperation with CryptoStream Paxos which is developing eponymous stablecoin. This was reported in the startup blog. In the opinion of the members of the partnership, “stablecoin” PAX will expand opportunities for clients BitPay….
COINMARKETCAP HAS ADDED A COIN BCHSV Operators of analytical portal CoinMarketCap on bitcoin and 2000 different altcoins, announced the addition of BCHSV – coins resulting from a Bitcoin Cash fork. Recall that Bitcoin Cash itself is a fork of the main bitcoin…
ICE POSTPONED BAKKT LAUNCH TO THE END OF JANUARY 2019 The launch of the platform for trading of digital assets Bakkt, created by the operator of the New York stock exchange (NYSE), was postponed to January 24, 2019. Intercontinental exchange (ICE), the…
THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF SPAIN WILL CONDUCT AN INSPECTION OF 15 000 TAXPAYERS OWNING CRYPTOCURRENCIES The Ministry of Finance of Spain will carry out an inspection of 15,000 taxpayers who carried out transactions in the cryptocurrency last year, reported the largest…
BASKETBALL PLAYER KOBE BRYANT WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE NITRON SUMMIT IN SAN FRANCISCO Kobe Bryant, the NBA National basketball Association superstar who won gold at the Beijing and London Olympics, will act as a guest expert at the NiTRON Summit 2019 in…
SEC: PARAGON AND AIRBOX MUST RETURN THE MONEY TO INVESTORS AND PAY $ 250,000 EACH The US Securities and Stock Market Commission repeated its warning to ICO projects and reported on measures against Paragon and AirFox companies. In an official statement, the…
CRYPTO-APOCALYPSE: THE LOSS OF $20 BILLION CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF THE CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET More than $20 billion has been withdrawn from the crypto industry in the last 24 hours; the digital asset Market has gone into free fall, and with each new…
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND IBM LAUNCHED 2 ACCELERATORS FOR BLOCKCHAIN STARTUPS Columbia University and IBM announced two accelerator programs designed to help blockchain startups scale, IBM said in a press release on November 19. Both programs will work on the basis of the…
CATALONIA CAN APPLY BLOCKCHAIN IN THE ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM The government of Catalonia is considering the use of blockchain technologies in the electronic voting system, the local newspaper Vanguardia reported on November 19th . In October, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the highest…
ITALIAN AUTHORITIES WILL ALLOCATE 1 BILLION EUROS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BLOCKCHAIN, AI AND VR Deputy Prime Minister of Italy said that the government will allocate 1 billion euros to support startups working in the areas of blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), as…
THE FORMER BLOCKCHAIN ENTHUSIAST DENIES THE USE OF PRIVATE BLOCKCHAINS FOR ORGANIZATIONS Former supporter of blockchain technologies Angus Champion de Crespigny noted that the introduction of blockchain into the work of organizations is extremely inefficient, since the blockchain was created to solve…
GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF THAILAND: WITHIN 3-5 YEARS THE COUNTRY WILL NOT HAVE A NATIONAL CRYPTOCURRENCY According to the Governor of the Bank of Thailand (BoT), Veerathai Santiprabhob, the Agency has no plans to move from cash to digital currency in…
WASHINGTON PROPOSES TO INCREASE THE COST OF ELECTRICITY FOR MINERS Washington state energy company Chelan PUD has proposed a new electricity pricing structure for cryptocurrency miners to reduce the unprecedented increase in electricity demand in the region. Chelan PUD, providing public services…
